The Signal Ledger update sharpens the series around Station Nine, Mara Venn's inherited tide instruments, and the impossible weather notes that appear before the days they describe. The orchard is now framed as a living archive, one that records pressure, salt, memory, and civic bargains in the same careful hand.\n\nAs Larkglass faces investors who want to meter the last freshwater, the updated series follows Mara through drowned rows, brass receivers, and the question underneath every forecast: whether the returning tide is predicting the town's future or revising its past.